Part of a voice-over in the trailer for “Lady Bird” – playing over scenes from the movie and in between dialogue – comes from a homily delivered to Catholic high school students attending a school Mass in the beginning of the movie.

Catholic seminarians hosted prominent political journalist Ranjeni Munusamy as a guest lecturer. Ms Munusamy, currently associate editor of The Sunday Times and previously of The Daily Maverick, comes from Dundee diocese and is at present a parishioner in Bryanston, Johannesburg

Discernment is needed to understand life’s ambiguities, not rigid thinking that tends to silence the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis said. True discernment can only be achieved by interpreting the signs of the times and...

Guest editorial by Michael Shackleton – It is instructive that the upcoming presidential elections in France have pushed some internet giants to prepare for them by providing new fact-checking tools. Facebook, Google and others already...

The media must not stir up fear when covering issues or events such as forced migration due to war or famine, Pope Francis said. While criticism and exposing wrongdoing is “legitimate and, I would add,...

By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service Catholic leaders, both ordained and lay, said in essays they welcomed the attention certain to be paid to the Catholic Church upon the nationwide release of the movie...

February 28, 2014 – Fr. James Martin SJ, is a Jesuit priest, award-winning author and Editor-at-Large at AMERICA, the national Catholic magazine published by the Society of Jesus in the United States. After working...